• Skua@kbin.earth
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    21 days ago

    Someone call that one person that wants to reintroduce þ to English

    This was the site of Iceland’s parliament for the best part of an entire millennium. It seems so humble for such a place

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      21 days ago

      Hello, it is I. Your local Icelandic person. It is pronounced like the th in thorn or thing.

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        21 days ago

        I am proud to say that I know a decent amount about Icelandic pronunciation despite not being able to speak it! This is entirely because Skálmöld songs are really fun to sing along to so I memorised the soinds of a few of them

        Edit: and also that one time Eyjafjallajökull shut down air travel over half of Europe

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          21 days ago

          Skálmöld is my favourite band and half my t-shirts have their logo because I make bad financial decisions when I go to their concerts.

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            21 days ago

            Entirely valid, they’re amazing. I wish I could have been there for the concert with the Icelandic symphony orchestra

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              21 days ago

              I didn’t go to the one they recorded in 2013 but they did it again in 2018 with songs from Með Vættum, Vögguvísur Yggdrasils, and Sorgir and it was amazing.

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          20 days ago

          Honestly, it didn’t even occur to me to see if it would let me.

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            19 days ago

            It could have been a fun way to trigger bugs in random fediberse software 😁